Booked!

September, 2016

At the centre of our summer activities were three Booked! Festivals, two-day mini events which took place in Galashiels, Greenock and Aberdeen in August while the Festival in Charlotte Square Gardens continued. We were able to draw on the authors attending Edinburgh to create quality programmes in tandem with our local partners in each area, bringing audiences face-to-face with authors …

Following on from our world première production of Alice Munro’s The View from Castle Rock during Edinburgh International Book Festival, we took the show on tour to the Scottish Borders, where the writer’s ancestors lived before sailing to find a new life in Canada. There were four sell-out performances on consecutive nights from 31 August to 3 September in venues …

One of our most exciting Booked! activities of the year took us from Edinburgh to the Hebrides, via Pakistan. Originally organised by Highlight Arts, poets from Pakistan and Scotland came together to create new poetry, stories and music in both Glasgow and Lahore. Building on this initial exchange, the Edinburgh International Book Festival invited illustrators and storytellers from both countries …